Thursday, May 26, 2011

[The following is my diary entry of June 22, 2008, 7:43 a.m., Sunday -- four days after my dream. At first, I never knew that what I was writing about in that entry was already the dream's fulfillment. --Gio C. Tijano.]

Lord, forgive me -- I did not do anything to save a youngster who fell to the violent seas at the seawall last night.

You know that I wanted to rescue him, but I was not in my right mind because nervousness attacked me.

Two men rescued him, but the neighborhood was furious of me.

A man in the distance even got a bamboo pole and struck it on the pavement several times while looking at me. The neighbors persuaded him to stop it, but he was very angry.

It was dreadful.

I felt I was white as ashes.

But I mustered courage when realization came to me that I did nothing bad, and so I thought, "Why should I be afraid?"

I walked towards the group that was having a drinking spree.

I faced them.

I was oozing with courage -- I know You were with me at that very moment.

The bamboo-wielding guy was, suddenly, out of sight.

The men fell silent at my presence.

I know my heavenly friends surrounded me at that moment.

I talked to them.

Somebody said I shouldn't be frequenting the seawall as I do not know how to swim.

I replied, "But I am only sitting on the seawall, and not on the waters!"

He fell silent again.

Maybe, what he was driving at was that, he was ordering me to stop frequenting the place.

But I just came from there this morning.

O my God! -- the fulfillment of my dream! I realize it only now.

Slanted ravine, the slanted seawall... skilled rescuer, the adept man in the dream... three guys forming a chain to help rescuer and the victim get on top of seawall, the ropes in the dream... I was on top of seawall as I watched in amazement at their adeptness, especially the human chains... The people there applauded the rescuers; and I have become the talk of the neighborhood because of my display of courage in the midst of furious men... I was alone... A stranger in the place...

"WHEN THE enemy SHALL COME IN LIKE A FLOOD, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL LIFT UP A STANDARD AGAINST him." --Isaiah 59: 19.

I was holding a special kind of ropes fastened to the trunks of coconut trees on the slope.

In the middle of the ravine was also a man having ropes on his body, somersaulting in the air and other stunts to the applause of people below.

I never knew what to do with the ropes; but as I grasped and held to feel it, realization came to me that I could do it.

Then, I found myself standing on the ropes and somersaulting in the air and landing my feet on the ropes again.

People applauded my stunts to the bewilderment of the adept man because he himself learned it after a long time of practice.

[Blogger's Note: This dream is symbolic. And four days after the dream, what it symbolizes happened to me. I wrote this experience in my diary entry of June 22, 2008. I will post that entry in my next blog post.]

Saturday, May 7, 2011

I was aiming my camera to the mountain of the Island City of ***** here in the Philippines while trying to include the sea and a portion of the beach of the Big City of my hometown when, suddenly, a boy appeared in the scene -- rear left.

My gut told me to give it a shot.

A minute later, the boy passed by me and I took a picture of him and his seafood harvest.

Only then did I understand what he was doing in the first picture:

He was draining off water from a basin containing seafood he harvested from the seabed (it was low tide!) just off the beach.

He was with his mother and some neighbor friends with their own seafood finds.

Facing each other, we were on a simple, wooden bench of the balcony connected to the house, sitting.

As a father to a son, we were talking: his eyes looking into mine; my eyes looking into his.

We were not "talking" as the physical world does: we were "talking" in the spirit -- soul to soul -- without words -- without action.

Only by simply looking into the eyes in Love communication.

And I found myself sobbing; I woke up sobbing like a longtime yearning of my soul has been fulfilled.Was it his way of saying "thank you" for the chaplets of Mercy that I had been graced to say unceasingly on his dying moment until he breathed his last? Or, was it a gift or a spirit transference that took place between our two souls as between Elijah and Elisha?If so, then, am I to love as he had been gifted with to love?

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Dream Quotes

"There are three things for which one should thank God: a good king, a good year, and a good dream."

"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter not read."

"An evil dream is better than a good one, since it leads to repentance."

"A prayer was to be said by one who did not know the meaning of one's dream."

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"Lord of the Universe! I am Thine and my dreams are Thine; a dream have I dreamed and I know not what it is. If they be good dreams, strengthen and fortify them and may they be fulfilled like the dreams of Joseph; but if they require to be amended, heal them as the waters of Marah were healed by the hands of Moses, our teacher, as Miriam was healed of her leprosy, as Hezekiah from his illness, and like the waters of Jericho sweetened by the hands of Elisha. And as Thou didst turn the curse of the wicked Balaam into a blessing, so do Thou turn all my dreams for me into good."AMEN.

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"What you are is God's gift to you; what you become is your gift to God.""One can give without loving; but one cannot love without giving."

"The heart that loves is always young."

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

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"Peace begins with a smile."

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

"We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the sun and the moon, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."